Sea World

Since the other weekend involved Labor Day, Clint got both Friday and Monday off. So on Friday we all went to Sea World. It's been a good 15 years or so since the last time I've been and I was really excited to see what Clark would think of it.

First we took him to see the Penguins, Polar Bears, Walruses and Beluga Wales. Sorry that so many of the pictures are the back of heads, but I was trying my best to get Clark and the animal that we were looking at. :) So some of them I was more successful at capturing his expression. :)

You can see the Polar Bears in the right corner of the habitat.








Beluga Wales






Waiting and watching the Shamu show.















As you can see, the Shamu show has changed a bit. The trainers no longer participate in the water with the wales due to an few trainers being killed/eaten. Therefore, the show isn't as spectacular as it once was.

During the show we all got kind of hot watching Shamu so we left early had some lunch and went to the dolphins. They were in an area that you could go right up to them and pet them. Sea World also had for an extra fee the ability for you to swim with dolphins, but that obviously wasn't going to work with Clark.






Unfortunately Clark was more interested in playing in the water then attempting to pet the dolphins. But it was still fun watching him play.

So if you have known me for a while, you know that I'm not the best of always showing my excitement about things that I really think are amazing. After I met Clint I had to change my ways so that I wouldn't hurt his feelings when he gave me something, but I earned the nick name Eeyore. My grandfather had taken me to Del Mar race track and took us back to the deck that the trainers stand on. I got to to see the horses running very close and thinking back to the day, I still remember the excitement I had. Unfortunately I didn't show it and my grandfather didn't think I liked it. And it seems I have passed on the Eeyore gene to Clark.

For the whole day he just was kind of "eh, what ever," or "cool" but it wasn't until we went to the aquariums did he really show his excitement.

Clark loves to watch the fish especially the really big ones! One gigantic fish came by today and Clark said, "WOW!" Hilarious.








Sorry that some of the pictures came out fuzzy. I had to take off the flash and it did funny things to the camera. And the pictures of the shark tank weren't as good as I would have liked. Oh well.







And yes, that is my child trying to climb over the rail to get to the gigantic shark mouth.



Consequences of a long hot day.